Readings in eastern religions / edited by Harold Coward, Ronald Neufeldt and Eva K. Neumaier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coward, Harold G.

Neufeldt, Ronald W. (Ronald Wesley), 1941-

Neumaier-Dargyay, E. K. (Eva K.), 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions.

China--Religion.

China.

Japan--Religion.

Japan.

India--Religion.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally developed for use in introductory courses on Eastern religious traditions, this popular anthology offers a selection of readings from primary texts of India, China, and Japan. For the second edition, the editors have added excerpts and have written introductions that provide a more comprehensive context for the readings. A section on Chan / Zen and excerpts from the writings of Ge Hong, representing the central concerns of Daoism, are included. A section on modern China includes a poem written by Mao, exhibiting his Daoist sensibilities. A revised chapter on Buddhism presents the voices of modern Buddhist writers, including the Dalai Lama. Throughtout the volume, reflections on the role of women in Eastern religions, as well as women's voices themselves, are added.

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""NAMES AND TERMS IN ASIAN LANGUAGES""; ""ONE: Hinduism""; ""Scripture in Hinduism""; ""Samhitas""; ""Rigveda""; ""Atharvaveda""; ""Brahmanas �The Shatapatha Brahmana""; ""Upanishads""; ""Legal Literature""; ""Laws of Manu""; ""Epics""; ""Bhagavad Gita""; ""Ramayana""; ""Devotional Literature""; ""Bhagavad Gita""; ""Ramayana""; ""The Goddess""; ""Indian Devotional Poet-Saints""; ""Manikkavachakar""; ""Appar""; ""Kabir""; ""Mirabai""; ""Hindu Ethics and Dharma""; ""Hindu Ethics and Dharma�Vasudha Narayanan""; ""Sources of Dharma""

""Ages of Time""""Specific Dharma and “Universal� or Common Dharma""; ""Text and Practice""; ""Moral Paradigms""; ""Dharma and Liberation""; ""New Reproductive Technology and the Hindu Tradition""; ""Notes""; ""TWO: Jainism""; ""Jain Sutras""; ""Notes""; ""THREE: Buddhism""; ""Buddha, the Awakened""; ""Autobiographical Records""; ""The Great Passing Away or Parinirvana""; ""The Buddha Biography Told by a Narrator""; ""Buddha�s Intrinsic Nature""; ""Dharma: The Teaching of the Buddha""; ""Ethics (Shila)""; ""Cultivation of a Spiritual Life (bhavana)""

""The Development of Wisdom (prajna)""""The Community""; ""Selected Voices of Modern Buddhism""; ""Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832�1907): A Voice of Revisionist Buddhism""; ""Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926): Mindfulness and Engaged Buddhism""; ""Women�s Voices""; ""Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935), the Fourteenth Dalai Lama""; ""Notes""; ""FOUR: Sikhism""; ""Hymns of Guru Nanak""; ""Rahit Namas""; ""Notes""; ""FIVE: Early Chinese Thought""; ""Book of Historical Documents""; ""Book of Odes""; ""Book of Changes""; ""Notes""; ""SIX: Confucian Thought""; ""Confucius""; ""The Analects""; ""Mencius""

""Xunzi/Hsuntzu""""Neo-Confucians""; ""Zhu Xi/Chu Hsi""; ""Wang Yangming/Wang Yang-Ming""; ""Notes""; ""SEVEN: Daoist/Taoist Thought""; ""Daodejing/Tao Te Ching""; ""Zhuangzi /Chuangtzu""; ""Religious Daoism""; ""The Alchemical Tradition""; ""Notes""; ""EIGHT: Chinese Communist Thought""; ""Mao Zedong/Mao tse Tung""; ""Notes""; ""NINE: Shinto""; ""The Ancient Mythology""; ""Early and Medieval Shinto""; ""The Engi Shiki (Institutes of the Engi Period)""; ""Kitabatake Chikafusa (1263�1354)""; ""Shinto Resurgence""; ""Ichijo Kanera (1402�1481)""; ""Kumazawa Banzan (1619�1691)""

""Motoori Norinaga (1730�1801)""""Hirata Atsutane (1776�1843)""; ""The Disestablishment of State Shinto""; ""Notes""; ""TEN: New Religions""; ""Tenrikyo""; ""Soka Gakkai""; ""Notes""; ""GLOSSARY""; ""A""; ""B""; ""D""; ""G""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""PERMISSIONS""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-397).

ISBN:

1-282-50148-8

9786612501487

0-88920-528-0

1-4294-2929-1

OCLC:

1016587933

Publisher Number:

9780889204355